The first liver-kidney concurrent transplant in Japan

At the press conference on September 2, Professor Takahito Yagi in charge of the organ transplant said: 'The surgery ended without any problems and we could say it was successful.'

According to Professor Yaghi, the transplant patient is a woman of about 50 years old, who is currently in a stable condition and is expected to be discharged after 2 months. Before the transplant, this patient was diagnosed with chronic liver failure and lost kidney function.

Donors are men over 40, injured in the head and brain dead. Although this person has never signed a document that expressed his wish to donate organs, the family has agreed to proceed with the operation.

Previously, in 2010, Osaka University Hospital performed a similar transplant, but the patient died before kidney transplantation.